National Budget for 8.26.08

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Aug 25, 2008 at 12:01 AMAug 25, 2008 at 6:13 PM

GateHouse News Service National Budget
For 8/26/08 editions

Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly.

LEADERSHIP SERIES: Applications being accepted for October training program. This session will focus on new media and implementing a local project, based on training editors receive at the session.
http://www.ghnewsroom.com/news.php?newsid=1219240273

Lifestyles

LABOR DAY RAIL: History and facts about Labor Day and U.S. workers. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/homepage/x418533629/Labor-Day-rail

WRESTLING GENIUS: Women in wrestling - The inherent issue seems to be matches involving women actually wrestling seem not to draw as much money for promoters as matches involving women looking good and tearing their clothes off do. ALSO IN SPORTS
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x499362639/The-Wrestling-Genius-What-about-the-women#

JAMES POST: It's OK, Microsoft; I already have a Wii
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/columnists/x2090471160/James-Post-It-s-OK-Microsoft-I-already-have-a-Wii

EDITORIAL: Privatized war comes with cost - Out of every $1 the United States spends in Iraq, 20 cents goes not to America's military but to a private contractor. So says a Congressional Budget Office report released this month. The CBO analysis reveals the striking extent to which the Bush administration has privatized the Iraq war. PEORIA
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/editorials/x590309967

EDITORIAL: Now the going gets tough for Obama, Biden - You've heard it for months now, and if you were among the thousands who packed downtown Springfield on Saturday, you saw it firsthand: The Obama campaign has stirred interest among young voters like no other in recent memory. SPRINGFIELD
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/editorials/x633545237

CHRISTY MIHOS: The Mitt I know: A warning for McCain and the GOP
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x633544658/Christy-Mihos-The-Mitt-I-know-A-warning-for-McCain-and-the-GOP

Sports

FOOTBALL BRIEFS: Features items on Panthers WR Hackett not getting started in Carolina, NFL Whispers on the Steelers, Seahawks and Texans, as well as Fantasy Buzz on Matt Ryan, Matt Leinart and Kevin Curtis.
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/pro/football/x499362666/Football-briefs-Panthers-WR-Hackett-not-getting-started-in-Carolina

WRESTLING GENIUS: Women in wrestling - The inherent issue seems to be matches involving women actually wrestling seem not to draw as much money for promoters as matches involving women looking good and tearing their clothes off do. ALSO IN ENTERTAINMENT
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x499362639/The-Wrestling-Genius-What-about-the-women#

PAYING WITH PENNIES: An Ohio municipal court official said a man could not use 5,000 pennies thrown into a box with packing peanuts to pay his fine. CANTON, Ohio
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/weird_news/x1311850880/Man-tries-to-pay-fine-with-5-000-pennies

BACK FROM BEIJING: Reporter shares his Olympic memories - On opening day of the Beijing Olympics, Chairman Mao Zedong gazed sternly from a large portrait looming above Tiananmen Square onto a China he would not recognize today. From the balcony where "The Great Helmsman" proclaimed on Oct. 1, 1949, the founding of the Peoples' Republic of China, there was no sign of the revolutionary zealotry that once fueled the creation of the communist superpower. MetroWest, Bergeron, on wire now
With photos
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/massachusetts/x499362778/Back-from-Beijing-Reporter-shares-his-Olympic-memories

Business

COSMETIC SURGERY: The new tools of the corporate trade - Your bosses and co-workers can claim diet and exercise all they want. The truth is, that healthy glow might be the result of cosmetic enhancement. And it might put them at a competitive advantage for the next promotion. Plastic surgery, once the dominion of Hollywood starlets, has found a home in the corporate boardroom. ROCKFORD
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/x560277782